Feed Dashboard
A high performance real time activity feed with WebSocket integration
Project Overview
Feed Dashboard is a comprehensive real time event monitoring system that showcases modern frontend development practices. Built with Next.js and TypeScript, this project tackles the complex challenge of consuming and displaying live WebSocket data in a user friendly, high performance interface. The application handles streaming events from multiple feeds (News Feed, Market Activity, Price Movement), providing users with powerful filtering and search capabilities. With a focus on resilience and performance, the dashboard implements automatic reconnection with exponential backoff, event deduplication, and graceful handling of malformed messages.
Key Features
Real Time WebSocket Integration
Live event streaming with clear connection status indicator and automatic handling of connection lifecycle.
Multi Feed Filtering
Tab based system to seamlessly switch between different event feeds (All, News, Market Activity, Price Movement).
Smart Search
Client side search functionality that filters events in real time by title and body content.
Resilient Connection
Automatic reconnection with exponential backoff strategy when WebSocket connection drops unexpectedly.
High Performance
Optimized rendering for large, scrollable feed lists with event deduplication and efficient state management.
Impact & Outcomes
- ✓Successfully implemented WebSocket connection with automatic reconnection
- ✓Achieved smooth rendering of 1000+ events with client side filtering
- ✓Built robust error handling that safely processes malformed WebSocket messages
- ✓Created clean TypeScript architecture with strong typing throughout the application
Technical Challenges
WebSocket State Management
Managing the complete connection lifecycle including initialization, reconnection logic, and gracefully handling dropped connections.
Event Deduplication
Implementing efficient deduplication logic to prevent duplicate events from appearing in the feed.
Performance Optimization
Rendering large, growing feeds efficiently without UI lag using React optimization techniques.
Error Resilience
Building robust error handling that safely processes malformed WebSocket messages without crashing the application.